Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] all [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then again if agonisings about modern are seem to take us in one direction , the banning of books as reminded us , takes us in quite another , and we have to remember that for all practical purposes it was indeed a banned book for nearly fifteen years , from the Twenties into the Thirties . |
| 2 | To think that for all these years I had tried to protect them from this very fate and I had n't even the pleasure of using them very often . |
| 3 | To think that after all these years he 's alive and well , and I can — oh , talk to him and touch him . |
| 4 | And Goldberg , in his pad : Dear Harsnet , it may surprise you to hear that after all these years I am finally at work transcribing the notes you entrusted to me so many years ago , with a view to eventually publishing them . |
| 5 | I thought that after all these years I 'd finally tamed her . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's funny that after all these years I still have n't forgotten what I 've been taught — so it must have been money well spent . ’ |
| 7 | It is so large and bureaucratic that like all such hierarchies it defeats itself . |
| 8 | The Sergeant-Major had said that like all other legionnaires we would learn to sing in perfect time , so sing we would . |
| 9 | On the last occasion he had seen his mother , which was when he came down to Plumford for lunch at Easter , he had thought that to all outward appearances she was exactly the same as she had always been . |
| 10 | I do n't think that among all possible measures we should immediately talk about the most extreme . ’ |
| 11 | I do n't think that among all possible measures we should immediately talk about the most extreme , ’ the chairman of parliament , Ruslan Khasbulatov , said on the eve of a debate on Mr Yeltsin 's removal . |
| 12 | The lesson of the porcupine quills ( and for an actual example of how not to do it read my Zen There was Murder , if after all these years you can find a copy ) is that any part of your book that you do not directly present to the reader ought to be thought out in imaginative terms , just as thoroughly as you have used your imagination to make whatever you have written fully credible . |
| 13 | Chapter 9 , ‘ Living Language ’ , points out that this aural memory-bank of speech and language continues to grow , and like all growing things it needs nourishing . |
| 14 | ‘ Certainly , Cabannes did superbly at the back of the lineout today but he was a regular target and in all other areas I gave Back the edge . |
| 15 | Ellie was now eighteen years old , and in all those years she had never travelled in a taxi-cab , nor had she ever been into the heart of Boston . |
| 16 | And on all those issues I think the industry itself has pulled itself up and through the National Tourist Boards we are going to promote it very hard indeed over the four week period . |
| 17 | Modernists never wrote stories , as that word is commonly understood , and to all public appearances they seldom read them . |
| 18 | In the image the tribe acts as a unit only when people need it , and at all other times it is only a possibility , a concept in their minds . |
| 19 | But after all these years I still remember the Krooms . |
| 20 | But like all such moments it came to an end , yet not before she had the satisfaction of knowing that she was not the only one affected . |
| 21 | But like all armoured animals they have sacrificed flexibility for security and must now be content with a stiffly jointed existence . |
| 22 | But with all these things I prepared and waited , prepared and waited until I had the orchestra really in hand . |
| 23 | ‘ We should be able to track him for about half a mile , but with all these buildings we 'll be lucky to get two hundred yards . |
| 24 | Orcs call stone throwers rock lobbers , but in all other respects they are exactly the same . |
| 25 | But in all these years he has certainly been spared those other , uninvited , distractions which sweep over our lives , a snowstorm of diversion and entertainment and half-understood knowledge . |
| 26 | But among all these doubts it had not occurred to her that if she got as far as 42b Milvain Street , and rang the bell , Edward would not open the door . |
| 27 | As with all small units you have to be wary of war machines and magic . |
| 28 | As with all similar games it is the strategy you develop that makes the difference . |
| 29 | As with all new ideas it met with resistance and considerable doubts were expressed about the quality of such type compared with previous methods . |
| 30 | But Dickie Arbiter , his spokesman , said : ‘ He is not badly injured he can walk but obviously as with all back problems it hurts a good deal . ’ |